Education Sessions

Check out the drop down menus below to view session titles, presenters, and times. For complete descriptions, view the 2015 Conference & Trade Show Brochure.

List of Session Titles

Just a handful of the many diverse offerings at this year's event!

• 2015 Pro-Grammy Awards
• 99 Seconds: Innovative Ideas Wanted!
• Achieving Your Career Destiny
• Adding a Spark of Disney to Your Events
• Aquatics Risk Management (Pool and Beaches)
• Are You Getting a Screening or Scamming? 
• Are You Kidding? Never in My Program! 
• Autism Speaks
• Being Advocates / Ambassadors for Parks and Recreation
• Boardmanship
• Brady Lodge: Deciding on a Historical Project
• Branding Parks and Recreation As an Economic Engine
• Budgeting: A Required Language
• Community Engagement - Getting the Right People Involved
• Community Mental Health
• Creating a Marketing Culture
• Deer Management in Parks / Panel
• Designing Fitness-Focused Playgrounds
• Designing Natural Play Environments 
• Field Safety Workshop
• Grant Opportunities with the DNR
• Greening Mid-Michigan: A Unique Partnership 
• Heath and Wellness Program for Staff
• Hotline Topic; That Just Happened
• I Caught Staff on Facebook…and told them "Good Job" - Social Media Best Practices
• Implications of Climate Change for Parks and Recreation 
• Inclusive Play 2.0 - Selecting Equipment for Play Areas
• Inflatables / Mobil Recreation
• Invasive Species Management in Practice
• Is Your Organization set up to Facilitate New Ideas or Destroy Them?
• July is Parks and Recreation Month/Other NPRA Tools and Resources
• Kick Start Placemaking : DO Try This at Home!
• Lakes to Land Initiative: A Regional Recreation Collaboration
• Legalities of Parks and Recreation
• Leveraging Cultural Assets: River Raisin Heritage Corridor: East Master Plan
• Lifestyle Strategies: Tapping Outdoor Recreation for Talent Attraction
• Living the Brand through Customer Service: Promising our Consumers and Experience
• Maintenance Best Practices - Rec Facilities
• Make your own SPLASH!
• Master Planning
• New ADA Standards - What is Being Proposed?
• New Build Examples - Recreation / Community Centers
• Outdoor Foundation - How does this influence your programming
• Outdoor/open water safety - Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project
• Past President Committee Meeting
• Prescribed Burn
• Placemaking and the Baby Boomers – Is your Community Ready?
• Planning and Crowdfunding Public Places
• Programming for Trails
• Quality vs. Quantity: Important Considerations in Renovation Design
• Recreation Software Panel (Pre Conference Session)
• Reduce Operating Expenses with Sustainable Design
• Regional Success through Recreation, Conservation and Community Planning 
• Running an effective meeting
• Senior Programming
• Sessions for Legislature at Staff Building
• Shiny Object! Brand Storytelling and Content Marketing
• Social Media how to: Management Tools and Media Relations 
• Sponsorship Burnout : Packaging Partnerships to Increase Revenues
• Sponsorships / Fundraising / Panel
• Stewardship
• Strategic Processes and Partnerships for Building Volunteer Stewardship Capacity
• Strategy for Placemaking Inclusion, Funding -Make Sure You're in the Plan!
• Super Staff SuperVision
• Sustainable Parks and Communities Through Community Engagement
• The Role of Repositioning in the Future Viability of Parks and Recreation
• To Lifeguard or Not to Lifeguard
• TR Programming
• Urban Recreation
• Using LinkedIn to Create & Maintain Your Personal Brand
• Using Universal Design In a Park Setting
• USTA Programs and Resources for Parks
• Valuation & Acquisition Issues of Corridors for Parks & Recreation
• What are the Meijer State Games of Michigan?
• Work-Life Integration: 6 Steps to Reclaiming Your Life